Your responsibilities
Salary: $80,000 - $95,000 (based on experience)
The Procurement Project Manager ensures and tracks procurement activities across all phases of the product lifecycle, serving as the primary point of contact between internal customers (CBU, Sales, Central Procurement, Supply Chain Management) and external stakeholders (Commodity Buyers, SQM, Supply Chain Management) from project initiation to EOP. Responsibilities include supporting the Commodity Buyers with new product projects, tracking milestones, managing change control, and ensuring compliance with purchasing policies and processes. The role also involves providing administrative support to the purchasing organization, including Procurement Performance monitoring, scorecard management, market and raw material insights, and system implementation. Additionally, the Procurement Project Manager is responsible for enhancing procurement quality processes, including managing audits (Procurement processes), developing reporting tools and inputs, ensuring information flow, and maintaining documentation and templates.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Preparation/tracking and ensuring milestones for project procurement phases in the lifecycle process/reviews from kickoff.
- Preparation, input, and tracking of the project master sheet (PMS) and project review tasks.
- Responsible for Costed BOM during the acquisition phase, including interaction with Sales, CBU, and Commodity Buyer.
- Preparation, managing, and tracking supplier capacity for incoming and serial business.
- Supporting Sales through market information in collaboration with the Commodity Manager (CM/CB) project (offers, material prices, trends, etc.)
- Enforcement and distribution of information (Nomination calendar) and activities to increase leverage for the awarding process, such as Project pipeline, bundling, and cross-OU/BU collaboration. (Operating Unit / Business Unit)
- Management, tracking, and participation of the involved procurement change management activities (AEMA).
- Enforce communication, alignment, and collaboration with Commodity Buyers throughout the procurement process.
- Monitoring of purchasing-specific KPIs and scorecard
- Track and prepare reports considering market and raw material insights.
- Support, review, and maintain annual budget planning
- Interface and collaboration between the Central Procurement team (PPM) and the region. (Procurement controlling)
- Align the global strategy and presentation planning of the regional commodity strategies with the Commodity Buyers.
- Process and quality systems implementation and collaboration with central procurement process team, including internal and external audits.
- Manage and track the implementation of procurement systems (Jaggaer, Sharepoints, Procurement systems, ProjectWorx, etc).
Your profile
Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Business, Supply Chain, or Engineering; or four to six years related technical experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience in the automotive sector/line production preferred
The [above] is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Your benefits
Bilstein has great benefits to offer!
- A state-of-the-art OE manufacturing plant with a strong focus on safety and cleanliness.
- Multiple competitive Health, Dental & Vision Coverage options.
- 401K matching program.
- Paid time off + 13 paid holidays.
- Paid volunteer hours.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Gym reimbursement.
- Company-paid short-term disability and life insurance.
- Internal growth opportunities.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Discounted BILSTEIN products.
Contact
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